Order for Merger of 50% DA, Retirement age news goes viral in Social Media
Recently rumour mill went overdrive in social media with the following news that
1.central government decided to Merge 50% DA with basic pay with effect from 1.1.2015 and order will be issued within 15 days
2. Encashment of Earned Leave to be curtailed to 180days instead of existing 300 days.
3.It went on to say that age of Retirement will be on completion of 33 Years of service or at the age of 58 Years whichever is earlier
According to the Social Media , the above strong decisions were taken in last three meeting of cabinet committee to recommend 7th pay commission. Further the post published in social media warned the central government employees that if above decisions are implemented; they should not expect more from 7th Pay Commission. Since it is considered to be the indication of what the think tank of central government will do for its employees.
We enquired about this rumour with one of the Member to the National council JCM, who recently met the 7th Pay Commission. According to him, the central government has firm on its decision not to accept the Merger of DA with Pay, since the due date of the 7th Pay Commission to submit its recommendation is nearing and the central government in many occasions cleared that the recommendation of 7th pay commission will be implemented from 1.1.2016. So there is no question of issuing order for merger of 50% DA with effect from 1.1.2015.
Further he clarified that the present government wanted to use the man-hours of central government employees productively by introducing new systems like bio metric attendance etc. Hence curtailing EL Encashment will lead the central government employees to take more leave if it is not allowed for encashment. So there is no need to implement such proposal as government point of view is against taking leave by Govt officials.
There is mixed response from the sources whether the retirement age of central government employees will be revised or not. It is believed that the present government is in favour of reducing retirement age to 58. But at the same time government doesn’t want loose resources of knowledge gained through experience by reducing retirement age of Government employees. Since the work culture of government service is deteriorating day by day due to various factors , govt would like to retain the experience of the senior Government officials . Anubhav is the one of the initiative introduced by the central government to improve the work culture of youngsters in government service. So there will not be any change in retirement age of central government employees at present.
Source:www.gservants.com
The idea of linking retirement age with years of service is totally impractical.
it means any body who was intelligent enough to join central services in first attempt after acquiring minimum qualification will retire much younger. take a case of engineer joining through UPSC Engg. services exam in first attempt after completing Engg at the average age of 21 Years. At the time of joining he will be 22 years and going by the formula which is in air he will be compelled to retire at the age of 55 years when all his prime responsibilities viz education and marriage of children will be pending. As such the retirement voluntary can be only linked with years of service and the superannuation has to be linked only to the absolute age only. It may be recalled that the logic behind increasing the retirement age from 58 to 60 years was that the marriage age has gone up and the people are not free from their responsibilities at the age of 58 years and accordingly the same was enhanced to 60 years. Thus even the very idea of linking superannuation with years of service will recognize the fact that govt does not want intelligent people to join the govt. services and will ruin the life of people who had already joined the govt service as young..
Retirement age should be 33 years of service or at 60 years of age whichever is later. I think that more than 90 % will retire before they attain the age of 58 years of age as they would have already served for 33 years at the age of 58 years. And every Govt employee must be given a chance to serve for at least 33 years. Only very few less than 5% retire before they serve for 33 years due to late joining not because of the fault of individual but due to the delay process of completing formalities by the Govt. itself. OR RETIREMENT SHOULD BE AFTER COMPLETING 33 YEARS OF SERVICE IRRESPECTIVE OF AGE. THIS WILL ALSO STOP MAKING FAKE BIRTH CERTIFICATES.
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In current situation the pay of central employees may be enhanced minimum more than 50% and the pay differences in all the employees in any cadre may be minimum. OROP may be giiven to also centra Govt. employees including NPS employees. The NPS employees must get the pension and the amount of NPS must be creditet in GPF account giving them GPF fàcility even joined on or after 01.04.2004. Modi ji may concious on this issues. All new employes joined on or after 01.04.2004 will ever oblige to Hon’ble Primme Minister Sri Narendra Modi Ji to consider this issue.
Ranjan Kumar